BRANDON As construction crews hammer away on new houses in Hillsborough Countys fastest-growing area, those moving in are going to need more than a few restaurants and service stations. Theyll need health services.

An $11 million medical office building going up at Kings Avenue and Oakfield Drive in Brandon, anchored by Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute, is one of several recent projects in eastern and southern Hillsborough County related to the medical fields. The new construction is directly tied to the expanding customer base.

Brandon Regional Hospital is adding on and BayCare Health System just built a new hospital in Riverview that opened at the beginning of the year. A new partnership between Tampa General Hospital and Florida Hospital called West Florida Health plans to begin construction on a Falkenburg Road clinic later this year.

The new 38,400 square-foot Brandon Medical Pavilion is scheduled to open as soon as November and the developer is still seeking tenants for its second floor.

The 3.27-acre plot the former site of Lifestyles Fitness is just blocks from Brandon Regional Hospital.

We work with health care providers and this is an area a lot of groups are interested in, with so much growth in Brandon and to the south. But it doesnt have a lot of high quality medical office space, said Andrew Boggini, principal for developer Optimal Outcomes LLC.

Weve maximized the site, putting every bit of square footage in that we could and there will be more than adequate parking, something that some other medical offices in Brandon lack, he said.

Boggini said there are no county or state economic incentives tied to the project, but it is expected to result in at least a handful of new permanent jobs for the area.

Florida Cancer Specialists plans to hire eight new employees, in addition to a radiation oncologist, said Brad Prechtl, CEO of the 31-year-old Florida-based company.

Prechtls company, which has 90 locations throughout Florida, has been in Brandon for a decade already, but has outgrown its space on Parsons Avenue. At the new building, it will occupy all of the first floor and will continue to offer traditional oncology treatment, hematology services and research and will add radiation therapy.

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